Afternoon Edition: 06 December 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 06 December 2024, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Raylen Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Friday, the sixth of December. Investigations have begun
even as a large wildfire still burns out of control
in the Southern Alps. Eighty six firefighters are battling the
blaze near Canterbury's Lake Pearson, which broke out early yesterday
and now covers nine hundred and eighty hectares. One wilderness

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hut has been destroyed. District Commander Dave Stackhouse says there'll
be a joint investigation with police. He says they may
already know where it started a reasonably got indicator, but
we need to confirm that with physical indications. Labour's calling
for the government's boot camp policy to be shut down,
saying there's evidence it's harming children. Uraga Tamadiki has confirmed

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two participants of the pilot program have faced arrest, although
charges were withdrawn for one. Two of the nineteens are
also missing. On top of news, one died in a
car accident last week. Labour's Willow gene Prime says today's
hearing with OT bosses didn't instill confidence things will improve.
My concern is that there is so much invested in

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this working that they are not looking at the facts
right in front of them. Confidence in the response to
bird flu at a Mortarchy egg farm in Otago operated
by Mainland Poultry. Tests have not picked up the eight
seven N six virus at a different chicken farm near
Dunedin where some birds died. Tests have also returned clear

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from other Mainland farms and the company is killing eighty
thousand birds at their Mortarchy site. Mpi's veterinary Officer, Doctor
Mary van Andel says things are in hand. Samples keep
coming in. We've already got more than a thousand samples
that have been received for testing. More arriving all the
time and police have suspended the search for three missing

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climbers on our Ki Mountcook five days after they were
reported overdue. A body discovered by member of the public
at todong Is Papamoa Beach has been recovered from the
water and police are working to identify them. Spirits are
low for Department of Conservation staff after a feral cats

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destroyed a threatened bird colony on Canterbury's Clarence River. It
kills several adult blackfronted turns, as well as chicks and eggs.
Almost all the ninety five nests are now abandoned. Doc's
senior biodiversity ranger Pat Crow says it's a real kick
in the teeth. I mean we mainly just said devastated

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with a lot of effists that's gone into this program
to sport and disappointment from the Silver Ferns the abandonment
of the Nation's Cup in January. The national netball side
will instead go into a week long summer camp in
Sydney with the new South Wales Swifts and play against
Super Netball teams. Manager ange Apostacogloo is vowing to fight

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to revive Tottenham's English Premier League fortunes after getting booed
and heckled after this morning's one nil loss at Bournemouth.
The Australian has refused to go into detail about his
heated exchange with fans, but says he understands the supporter's
emotional reaction. And that is your latest news fix. We'll

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be back with the next update tomorrow morning from the
News Talk ZEDB newsroom.